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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2
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William Cabell Bruce
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
EDYL - The Reading Department
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Mark Capell
It's 2046 and Jake Radley has the career opportunity of a lifetime. But to take it he needs to acquire a strange, mysterious new skill. A s…
Black, White and Brindled
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Eden Phillpotts
These short stories by Eden Phillpotts are set in the West Indies, involving mystery, murder, tragic romance and many a sea yarn.NOTE: There…
My Strange Rescue
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James Macdonald Oxley
An anthology of short stories, anecdotes and observations of sport and adventure in Canada. Tobogganing, snowshoeing , ice skating and hocke…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 20 - Adventurers of the Far North
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Stephen Leacock
This is volume 20 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This volume describes the explorers who braved the Canadian Arctic in search of the No…
Writing Quebec [Readings]
SANWAL CBC
A ten part series of readings of remarkable Quebec Literature, Fiction and Poetry, focusing on post-war writing. Heather Brown Between The C…
Historical Romance of the American Negro
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Charles H. Fowler
It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …
Notes on Life and Letters
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Joseph Conrad
Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr…
Obermann
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Étienne Pivert de Senancour
This is a 1903 translation of Étienne Pivert de Senancour's immensely influential work Obermann. Although it was almost completely ig…
Winnowed Wisdom
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Stephen Leacock
This 1926 volume comprises thirty-five essays by the masterful Canadian humorist. - Summary by david wales
Follies in Fiction
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Stephen Leacock
A pamphlet from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, containing selections from Further Foolishness and Frenzie…
Robert Browning (Version 2)
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G. K. Chesterton
This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…
North America Vol. 1
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In 1861 he travelled through…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 1
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William Cabell Bruce
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
Lenz
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Georg Büchner
Büchner schildert in dieser Erzählung, wie der deutsche Schriftsteller Jakob Lenz dem Wahnsinn verfällt.Vor dem abwechselnd d…
Canadian Scenery, Volume 1
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Nathaniel Parker Willis
An historical account of the settlement of Upper and Lower Canada, with notes about the indigenous inhabitants of those areas of Eastern Can…
Ovid And His Influence
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Edward Kennard Rand
In this early entry into the Our Debt To Greece and Rome series, Rand provides a lively summary and commentary on all of Ovid's poetical wor…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 098
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Various
"The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself.&qu…
A Collection of the Facts and Documents Relative to the Death of Major-General …
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William Coleman
Compiled by William Coleman the first editor of the New York Evening Post, this book includes items that trace a path leading to the death o…